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Get “Ilegal en Estyle’ This Saturday!

{Pilar Diaz on the Set of the Video Shoot for “Ilegal en Estyle’} The Obama administration recently announced its intent to push for comprehensive immigration reform in the coming new year. In a speech given earlier this month Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano favored what she called a “three-legged stool” approach involving enforcement, expanded [...]

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The “Arpaio Out of Anaheim” Protest!

{Bill Hunt’s Dreadful Tie Suggests a Recent Stint in Arpaio’s Jails} Around seventy-five people showed up last night in Anaheim to protest the presence of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The racial profiling immigrant sweeper and perennial lawsuit magnet was in my city to stump for OC sheriff candidate Bill Hunt. As the above photo [...]

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Arpaio Outta Anaheim!

Sheriff Joe has got to go! This is true whether it’s from his office in Maricopa County, Arizona or from the city of Anaheim. Yes, the lawsuit plagued immigrant sweeping racial profiler currently being investigated by the FBI is coming to Orange County on Thursday, November 5th. He will be a featured guest at a [...]

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Hatred and Fright on Halloween Night?

Orange County Register columnist Yvette Cabrera chimed in Wednesday on the “illegal alien” Halloween costume controversy with an aptly titled piece “Behind the Mask.” The article highlighted three Halloween outfits – including a ’sexy illegal alien’ one I was previously not privy too – and what they say about the anti-immigrant climate suffocating our society [...]

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Out of this World Racism!

{E.T. aka Eddie Torres Sin Papeles Costume} There is a lot of righteous indignation concerning the “Illegal Alien” Halloween costume that is being offered by retailers in stores and online. Immigrant rights advocates and others swiftly sounded the alarm when word reached that the racist Halloween outfit manufactured in the poorest of taste was being offered [...]

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